[Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel] .orig.tar.gz orig vs. repacked

[Ondrej Sury]

I would say two points:

We need to support two paths:

1. unpack vanilla upstream
2. drop debian/ subdir inside
3. debuild should create packages and diff with debian/ only changes

4. debclean should put tree in buildable state
5. debuild should create packages and diff with debian/ only changes

Recreating original files is waste of time.

From practical point of view even 4) and 5) is waste of time :-).

In Debian Gnome team we have following svn structure:

/desktop/<release>/package/debian/<files>
/desktop/<release>/tarballs/

and we use mergeWithUpstream svn-builder flag on debian/ subdirectory.

That way each build starts with pristine upstream tarball and generates
diff.gz properly.

But I will be happy if we can support points 1.-5.  (supporting only
1.-3. just makes life easier :-)

Ondrej.
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Ondrej Sury <ondrej at sury.org>
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